Professor Rob Fender: Publications

An artist's impression of a relativistic jet propagating away from a black hole at close to the speed of light. Such jets are formed by the inner regions of the accretion flow: matter flowing inwards towards the black hole, via processes which are not yet fully understood. The accretion flow emits primarily in X-rays, the relativistic jet in the radio band: by combing observations in each band we can try and understand how such jets form and how much energy they carry away from the black hole.

SPIRITS 16tn in NGC 3556: A Heavily Obscured and Low-luminosity Supernova at 8.8 Mpc

ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL 863:1 (2018) ARTN 20

Authors:

Jacob E Jencson, Mansi M Kasliwal, Scott M Adams, Howard E Bond, Ryan M Lau, Joel Johansson, Assaf Horesh, Kunal P Mooley, Robert Fender, Kishalay De, Donal O'Sullivan, Frank J Masci, Ann Marie Cody, Nadia Blagorodnova, Ori D Fox, Robert D Gehrz, Peter A Milne, Daniel A Perley, Nathan Smith, Schuyler D Van Dyk

A precise measurement of the magnetic field in the corona of the black hole binary V404 Cygni

Science American Association for the Advancement of Science 358:6368 (2017)

Authors:

Y Dallilar, SS Eikenberry, A Garner, RD Stelter, A Gottlieb, P Gandhi, P Casella, VS Dhillon, TR Marsh, SP Littlefair, L Hardy, Robert Fender, Kunal Mooley, DJ Walton, F Fuerst, M Bachetti, AJ Castro-Tirado, M Charcos, ML Edwards, NM Lasso-Cabrera, A Marin-Franch, K Ackley, JG Bennett, AJ Cenarro, B Chinn, HV Donoso, R Frommeyer, K Hanna, J Julian, P Miller, S Mullin, CH Murphey, C Packham, F Varosi, C Vega, C Warner, AN Ramaprakash, M Burse, S Punnadi, P Chordia, A Gerarts, H De Paz Martín, MM Calero, R Scarpa, SF Acosta, B Siegel, FF Pérez

Abstract:

Observations of binary stars containing an accreting black hole or neutron star often show x-ray emission extending to high energies (>10 kilo--electron volts), which is ascribed to an accretion disk corona of energetic particles akin to those seen in the solar corona. Despite their ubiquity, the physical conditions in accretion disk coronae remain poorly constrained. Using simultaneous infrared, optical, x-ray, and radio observations of the Galactic black hole system V404 Cygni, showing a rapid synchrotron cooling event in its 2015 outburst, we present a precise 461 ± 12 gauss magnetic field measurement in the corona. This measurement is substantially lower than previous estimates for such systems, providing constraints on physical models of accretion physics in black hole and neutron star binary systems.

Evolving morphology of the large-scale relativistic jets from XTE J1550−564

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 91̽�� University Press (OUP) 472:1 (2017) 141-165

Authors:

Giulia Migliori, S Corbel, JA Tomsick, P Kaaret, RP Fender, AK Tzioumis, M Coriat, JA Orosz

A Multi-telescope Campaign on FRB 121102: Implications for the FRB Population

The Astrophysical Journal American Astronomical Society 850:1 (2017) 76

Authors:

CJ Law, MW Abruzzo, CG Bassa, GC Bower, S Burke-Spolaor, BJ Butler, T Cantwell, SH Carey, S Chatterjee, JM Cordes, P Demorest, J Dowell, R Fender, K Gourdji, K Grainge, JWT Hessels, J Hickish, VM Kaspi, TJW Lazio, MA McLaughlin, D Michilli, K Mooley, YC Perrott, SM Ransom, N Razavi-Ghods, M Rupen, A Scaife, P Scott, P Scholz, A Seymour, LG Spitler, K Stovall, SP Tendulkar, D Titterington, RS Wharton, PKG Williams

ThunderKAT: The MeerKAT Large Survey Project for Image-Plane Radio Transients

(2017)

Authors:

R Fender, PA Woudt, R Armstrong, P Groot, V McBride, J Miller-Jones, K Mooley, B Stappers, R Wijers, M Bietenholz, S Blyth, M Bottcher, D Buckley, P Charles, L Chomiuk, D Coppejans, S Corbel, M Coriat, F Daigne, WJG de Blok, H Falcke, J Girard, I Heywood, A Horesh, J Horrell, P Jonker, T Joseph, A Kamble, C Knigge, E Koerding, M Kotze, C Kouveliotou, C Lynch, T Maccarone, P Meintjes, S Migliari, T Murphy, T Nagayama, G Nelemans, G Nicholson, T O'Brien, A Oodendaal, N Oozeer, J Osborne, M Perez-Torres, S Ratcliffe, V Ribeiro, E Rol, A Rushton, A Scaife, M Schurch, G Sivakoff, T Staley, D Steeghs, I Stewart, J Swinbank, K van der Heyden, A van der Horst, B van Soelen, S Vergani, B Warner, K Wiersema

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